Re: [GNC] Can't open saved .gnucash file

2024-09-19 Thread Chris Raesz via gnucash-user
That sort of worked. I got the same error message after deleting that report, but it let me open it anyway. After that, I created the deleted report and closed it down. When I restarted Gnucash, no issues. Thanks very much. chris. On 9/19/24 12:12, John Ralls wrote: It looks like you left a

Re: [GNC] Can't open saved .gnucash file

2024-09-19 Thread Ed Reeder
Thanks! It also looks like it is also a case of RTFM. https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html Looks like this would be another way to recover. Thanks so much for your detailed explanation. /Ed On Thu, Sep 19, 2024, at 10:12 AM, John Ralls wrote: > It looks like you l

Re: [GNC] Can't open saved .gnucash file

2024-09-19 Thread John Ralls
It looks like you left a report open and the option string saved in your state file has a bad value. The state file has the same name as your .gnucash file with a .gcm extension tacked on (i.e. “my-book.gnucash.gcm”) and is located in GNC_DATA_HOME/books (see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Confi

[GNC] Can't open saved .gnucash file

2024-09-19 Thread Chris Raesz via gnucash-user
I recently had a desktop meltdown but I had my data backed up. I am using Linux and gnucash version GnuCash 5.8, Build ID: 5.8+(2024-07-06) When I try to open it, I get a message stating some other user has the file locked. When I tell it to open read-only or open anyway, it crashes. My comman